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Apache

Configure PHP and Apache on DigitalOcean with Ansible

Configure PHP and Apache on DigitalOcean with Ansible

Setting up a webserver for a PHP site is relatively straightforward for a basic configuration. Install and configure Apache (or nginx), install the relevant PHP modules, add the code and off you go. There's loads of tutorials out there for that. But what happens when you have a

How to fix the Symfony web profiler in Apache

How to fix the Symfony web profiler in Apache

So you've decided you want to create a web project using Symfony 5. Great! By now you've got the Welcome to Symfony 5.x.y message on screen; great. You're going to need the Apache pack to ensure the custom routes work nicely with

How to configure your CI pipeline environments

How to configure your CI pipeline environments

This seems like a very simple and trivial thing, but it's something which gets easily overlooked. Setting up a CI pipeline environment is fairly trivial (unless you are using a custom docker image - but that's for another time); just tell the script to use a

Encrypting the site

I've just moved my site from HTTP over to HTTPS. It's not a huge deal for something like this, but it's something which I've really needed to do for a while, and something which is becoming more and more popular. For most

Setting up your web server

I spend quite a lot of time on StackOverflow [http://stackoverflow.com/], both in terms of finding answers for something I need, and also for helping people out with their issues. One question I see quite a lot is around security permissions for creating files on the server. Usually these